E-raamat: Blooms of Darkness

His fiction with Blooms of Darkness in its front rank continues to mine depths and bring us blazing light from them. As a laboratory, and testing-ground, of human nature in its occasional glory and frequent shame, the wild child's adventures remain inexhaustible. * Independent Radar Magazine * What's so extraordinary about it is the way it continues to unfold and grow in the imagination long after you put it down. It's so sparely told, but Appelfeld somehow manages to fold entire stories into the silences between each chapter each paragraph, even. It deserves to become a classic. -- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize judge and writer Hephzibah Anderson Aharon Appelfeld is fictions foremost chronicler of the Holocaust. The stories he tells, as here in Blooms of Darkness, are small, intimate, and quietly narrated and yet are transfused into searing works of art by Appelfelds profound understanding of loss, pain, cruelty and grief. -- Philip Roth With short, simple sentences and a brisk pace, the effect of this novel is reminiscent of a film, except that a film would place greater emphasis on dramatic incident and the horror of the situation. As readers, we are left to reflect on such matters for ourselves. * East-West Review * Appelfeld's tale of a horrific period in history and his ability to understand and convey the pain and suffering of the Jews, gives this account of a well-chronicled period a freshness and depth rarely found. * The Good Book Guide * The parents dilemma of how to live with horror and what to tell the children; Hugos inexorable forgetting; the inability to understand what you fear [ ] all are caught in Appelfelds glancing, delicate prose. * The Independent *